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Performer: Alexander Boyer

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Sir David McVicar’s psychologically driven Salome arrives in Chicago

Alex Boyer (Herod) and Jennifer Holloway (Salome) © Kyle Flubacker
Revived at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the notorious opera director’s take stirs sympathy for Salome, but leans on some of his theatrical hobby-horses
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Claus Guth directs a tormented, harrowing new Salome at the Met

Elza van den Heever (Salome) © Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera
Claus Guth's new production at the Metropolitan Opera, originally seen at the Bolshoi in 2021, moves the action from biblical Judea to the era of the opera's composition. 
*****
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Heggie’s newly staged Moby Dick lands triumphantly at the Met

Peter Mattei (Starbuck) © Karen Almond | Met Opera

Fifteen years after its Dallas Opera world premiere, Jake Heggie’s grand adaptation of Herman Melville’s sprawling epic arrives in New York in a stunning production with a standout cast.  

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The “other” Bohème delights at West Edge Opera

Leoncavallo's rarely produced La bohème offers enchanting musical variety, delivered in a well-cast concert staging by West Edge Opera.
****1
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